Acquisition number: 1974.01
Fragment of a fired clay brick bearing a crescent-shaped stamp. Pale orange-buff clay with many dark inclusions. There are no finished edges.
The stamp reads
C NVNN FORT PRIM
and in the centre
PP
for C. Nunn(idi) Fort(unati) Prim(i).
To judge by the line, here in relief, that runs above the PP and through the T, the stamp had at some stage been broken in two, then fastened together again.
Title: Fragment of a Stamped Roman Brick - 1974.01
Acquisition number: 1974.01
Culture or period: Roman Imperial
Date: AD 123-142.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Architectural features
Dimensions: 120mm (w) × 128mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Rome
Display case or on loan: 6
Keywords: Roman, Imperial, Brick Stamp, Stamp, C Nunnidius Fortunatus, Fragment
Charles Ede Ltd (London), Writing and Lettering in Antiquity (April 1974) no. 32 (ill.); J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 119.
1974.01
Fragment of a Stamped Roman Brick
Purchased. Max. diam. 12.8 x 12cm Diam. of stamp 9-9.4cm.
Fragment of a fired clay brick bearing a crescent-shaped stamp. Pale orange-buff clay with many dark inclusions. There are no finished edges.
The stamp reads
C NVNN FORT PRIM
and in the centre
PP
for C. Nunn(idi) Fort(unati) Prim(i).
To judge by the line, here in relief, that runs above the PP and through the T, the stamp had at some stage been broken in two, then fastened together again.
The stamp is the same as Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum XV, 1, 247 no. 862. The name of C. Nunnidius Fortunatus is also to be found op. cit. nos 846-861; see also Bloch, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 56-57, 1947, 58 no. 236 (of ad 123) and T. Helen, Organization of Roman Brick Production in the First and Second Centuries ad. An Interpretation of Roman Brick Stamps (Helsinki 1975) 123-124 and 145 no. 39. His bricks seem to belong to the period AD 123-142.
Charles Ede Ltd (London), Writing and Lettering in Antiquity (April 1974) no. 32 (ill.); J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 119.